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accessory buildings, structures or units, a chemical dump site, a vehicle, boat, trailer, or
<br />other appliance.
<br />(5) `Controlled substance" means a drug substance or immediate precursor
<br />specified in Minn. Stat. § 152.02, Schedules I through V, and as the same may
<br />amended. The term does not include distilled spirits, wine, malt beverages, intoxicating
<br />liquors or tobacco.
<br />(6) "Manufacture," in places other than a pharmacy, includes the production,
<br />cultivation, quality control, or standardization, by mechanical, physical, chemical or
<br />pharmaceutical means, and the packing, re- packing, tableting, encapsulating, labeling, re-
<br />labeling, or filling of drugs, by any other process.
<br />(7) "Owner" means a person, firm, corporation or other entity who or which
<br />owns, in whole or in part, the land, building, structure, vehicle, boat, trailer or other
<br />location associated with clandestine drug lab site. Unless information is provided to
<br />prove otherwise, the owner of real property is deemed to be the property taxpayer of
<br />record in the Ramsey County files, and the owner of a vehicle, boat or trailer is deemed
<br />to be the person listed as the owner on the most recent title to the vehicle, boat or trailer.
<br />3100.040. Declaration of Public Health Nuisance. All dwellings, accessory
<br />structures, buildings, vehicles, boats, trailers, personal property, adjacent property or
<br />other locations, associated with a clandestine drug lab site are potentially unsafe due to
<br />health hazards and are declared to be a public health nuisance.
<br />3100.050. Law Enforcement Action.
<br />(1) Law enforcement authorities who identify conditions associated with a
<br />clandestine drug lab site that may place the public or occupants at risk for exposure to
<br />harmful contaminants and other associated conditions may:
<br />(a) promptly notify the appropriate municipal, child protection, and public
<br />health authority, the United States drug enforcement administration, and the site owner
<br />about the site and the conditions found;
<br />(b) treat, store, transport or dispose of all waste generated from the
<br />clandestine drug lab operation and found at the site in a manner consistent with the
<br />Minnesota Department of Health and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Regulations;
<br />(c) issue a temporary declaration of public health nuisance for the affected
<br />site and post a copy of the declaration on all doorway entrances to the site or, in the case
<br />of bare land, in several conspicuous places on the property. This temporary declaration
<br />will expire after the city inspects the site and determines the appropriateness of issuing a
<br />permanent declaration of public heath nuisance;
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